John Stevens will head Edgartown School on an interim basis, with the school’s longtime guidance counselor Deborah DeBettencourt becoming assistant principal.
After five years as the head of the Edgartown School, Shelley Einbinder-Fleischmann announced Tuesday that she will retire after the school year. Vice principal Mary Ann Bartlett will also resign at the end of June.
Alicia Knight will head to Finland this fall to study inquiry-based learning, an educational method that encourages students' curiosity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Nearly 200 parents attended an Edgartown school committee meeting last week, criticizing the district for a lack of transparency and a pattern of ignoring parental concerns.
Working with wildlife biologists at BiodiversityWorks, seventh and eighth graders in Edgartown, Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury spent this month reviewing images of mammals from camouflage cameras placed around the Vineyard.
On Tuesday morning around the Island, bells were ringing again as Vineyard students headed back to the classroom for the first day of school.